Big upvote for "the Kubuntu alternate install disk". The Kubuntu live CD gives me nothing but grief including the same keyboard issues.
All the best, Dan On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > I have had spotty luck with a Kubuntu live CD for installations. I have > found the more reliable path is to install a stock Ubuntu first (sans KDE) > and then install the kubuntu-desktop package. I've also had better luck > with the alternate install disk, or the net-install disk. > > When the Kubuntu live CD installation fails for me, it's always something > minor in the setup. Like the keyboard is messed up, or a bunch of packages > didn't get installed. But I never diagnosed this to see if it was just a > networking hiccup while retrieving packages, or something else. It was > just faster for me to do a rebuild. > > HTH > > > On 12-04-09 09:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> No... I installed Kubuntu so it should already be KDE. >> >> I suspect it might be a French Keyboard as well! But I don't know why. >> I am French and maybe they peaked at my birth certificate! I am use to >> the American English Keyboard and I prefer to stay that way. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 05:50:12PM -0600, Shawn wrote: >> >>> Sounds like your box is treating the keyboard as a french keyboard. I'm >>> assuming you are using the default desktop (which is Unity these days). >>> In which case... well, I dislike Unity, so immediately switch to >>> gnome, but only long enough to install the KDE desktop (via the >>> kubuntu-desktop pacakge). So... find where your Locale settings are >>> (date/time format, etc.). You can should be able to select your >>> language and keyboard settings here. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Shawn >>> >>> On 12-04-09 02:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The Keyboard locale is set for en-us UTF-8 but some of the keys are not >>>> mapped properly. >>>> >>>> Its an IBM PC-104 KB... standard which I've used for over a decade. >>>> >>>> for instance the ?/ key gives a little e and a big E with I think two >>>> (2) dots on it. the ~` key gives * and some thing else. >>>> >>>> >>>> How can I fix this. My next option is to give up on Kubuntu and go to >>>> Debian. >>>> >>>> I think a HUGE number of packages I expect to be installed are missing >>>> anyways. Comments? Why is Ubuntu so great? >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> clug-talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >>>> Mailing List Guidelines >>>> (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> >>>> ) >>>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >>> Mailing List Guidelines >>> (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> >>> ) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >> Mailing List Guidelines >> (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> >> ) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> > Mailing List Guidelines > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> > ) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- One thing you can be sure of. If you throw a loaded gun in a monkey cage, something bad is going to happen.
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